A young Irish Leicester-raised catholic, fresh from UCD with a
first in history, socialist in sympathy, is sent north as a junior
reporter in the Belfast bureau of RTE News to cover the
increasingly vicious conflict erupting on the streets of a
hate-filled city as the IRA campaign began. Reporting for Hibernia
in Dublin, the "London Observer" and NBC Radio in North America,
Myers becomes the eyes and ears for an uncomprehending world during
a bloody decade that saw the collapse of Northern Irish society,
from internment to the La Mons bombing. Raw, candid, courageous and
vivid, these wartime dispatches chronicle loyalist gangs,
paratroopers, provos, politicians, British agents, and an
inimitable citizenry, forming a remarkable double portrait of a
divided society and an emergent self - a witness to humanity, and
inhumanity, on both sides of the sectarian faultline. This title
offers a wonderfully vivid, trenchant first-hand account of life on
the streets of Belfast during the height of 'the Troubles', as a
young reporter witnesses the blood-fueds and chaos of a divided
society on the brink of civil war: a litany of violence,
observation and emotional free-fall, combining humour and
reflection with history in the making. It interweaves the political
and the personal in a very human tale at once funny,
self-deprecating and sexual, a coming-of-age story like no other,
on the streets and between the sheets. It gives a beautifully
written, evocative and shockingly honest narrative record of a
pivotal time in Ireland's recent past, blending articulacy with
savage indignation.
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